Event Title
BREAK OUT SESSION - Women in Poverty: Living in Maine
Start Date
11-7-2014 2:50 PM
End Date
11-7-2014 3:50 PM
Description
Maine is the poorest, hungriest and oldest state in New England. Join us for a discussion about women's experience of poverty with an emphasis on rural poverty. The discussion will be framed by an anti-poverty policy expert who works tirelessly to advocate for systemic solutions to poverty through legislation and litigation Speakers will include: an expert anti-poverty organizer who works to increase access to everything from education and employment to car seats in rural Maine; a Somali refuge who has organized other Somali women to get the resources they need; and a woman who was trafficked as a young girl in Boston, experienced homelessness as a mother in Maine, and continues to empower women experiencing homelessness, hunger, chronic poverty and sex trafficking to fully participate in solutions to such problems.
Moderator:
Holly Stover, Maine Commission on the Status of Women
Panelists:
dee Clarke, Consultant and Mentor, Homeless Voices for Justice and Preble Street Anti-Trafficking Coalition
Fatuma Hussein, United Somali Women of Maine
Eliza Townsend, Executive Director, Maine Women’s Policy Center
BREAK OUT SESSION - Women in Poverty: Living in Maine
Maine is the poorest, hungriest and oldest state in New England. Join us for a discussion about women's experience of poverty with an emphasis on rural poverty. The discussion will be framed by an anti-poverty policy expert who works tirelessly to advocate for systemic solutions to poverty through legislation and litigation Speakers will include: an expert anti-poverty organizer who works to increase access to everything from education and employment to car seats in rural Maine; a Somali refuge who has organized other Somali women to get the resources they need; and a woman who was trafficked as a young girl in Boston, experienced homelessness as a mother in Maine, and continues to empower women experiencing homelessness, hunger, chronic poverty and sex trafficking to fully participate in solutions to such problems.
Moderator:
Holly Stover, Maine Commission on the Status of Women
Panelists:
dee Clarke, Consultant and Mentor, Homeless Voices for Justice and Preble Street Anti-Trafficking Coalition
Fatuma Hussein, United Somali Women of Maine
Eliza Townsend, Executive Director, Maine Women’s Policy Center
Comments
Organized by Maine’s Permanent Commission on Status of Women.